Vol 3 Ep 53 - The Celts

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 10 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

450 BCE - 60 CE - The original barbarians to the Romans, with their appetite for war and their mysterious past. There are bound to be a thing or two that you never knew about these peoples whose legacy is just as strong as the Romans.

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0:00.0	This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler
0:14.0	And you're listening to volume three the classical world
0:20.0	episode 53
0:22.0	the Celts. Oh, I've been dreading writing this episode as well as looking forward to it. The Celts have a
0:55.8	reputation for being intimidating adversaries on the battlefield. They also now
1:02.2	have a reputation for being an intimidating
1:05.8	subject matter for historians. The reason is because we think we ought to know
1:12.0	more about them than we actually do.
1:15.0	This is because they play an incredibly important role
1:19.6	in the relationship between the Roman Republic and its neighbours and also because
1:25.4	their descendants and their language are still very much a part of today's
1:30.6	world and today's Cel's are very proud of their identity.
1:38.0	One of the biggest bones of contention relating to the kelt's is that there are differing perspectives on their origins
1:45.0	meaning that historians are not clear about their origins with their being
1:48.8	opposing theories so let's take a look back at what we have learned already.
1:55.0	We know that the Gauls of the late 1st millennium B.C.
2:00.0	that inhabited the lands around the Alps were Celtic and this is brought to us through the
2:05.6	writings of the classical world both Roman and Greek so we know that they were
2:10.9	widely recognised we know that they were widely recognised.
2:13.4	We know that they were very active.
2:16.5	They were able to migrate due to having a more nomadic nature than the people of the classical
2:21.9	world and they were prepared to raid and plunder to get what they needed.
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